Re: multiple mutts

[raf]

Jamie Novak wrote:

> On 10/11, Aaron Schrab rearranged the electrons to read:
> 
> > Or you could just make a minor modification to the grep pattern:
> > 
> >   ps -U $LOGNAME | grep 'r[e]almutt' > /dev/null
> > 
> > That way grep won't be able to match itself.
> 
> You could also just do a:
> 
> ps -U $LOGONAME | grep mutt | grep -v grep > /dev/null
> 
> "grep -v" tells grep to ignore whatever pattern you specify there.
> I haven't tested this on many versions of grep, but I know it works
> under AIX, HP-UX and FreeBSD.  YMMV.
> 
> - Jamie

but that would be a waste of a process.

raf